The invention provides a food product comprising first and second nested containers (9,1), the first container being a closed container formed of a non-metalic (e.g. plastics) material capable of withstanding retorting conditions, the said first container being in the form of a dish and containing a food which has been subjected to cooking by retorting in the container; the second container being ...

A golf bag combined with a collapsible golf cart includes: a golf bag 1 having two inclined-surface portions 1a formed on its side portion, a pair of radial-movement legs 2 pivotally mounted on the two inclined-surface portions of the bag, a wheel supporting shaft 3 having a pair of telescopic shafts 31 telescopically disposed on two opposite sides of a sleeve 30 of which each shaft is pivotally s...

An improved composite material is produced by mixing ground gypsum and a plurality of host particles, each having accessible voids therein, together with sufficient liquid to form a dilute slurry; heating the slurry under pressure to a temperature sufficient to calcine the gypsum to calcium sulphate hemihydrate; allowing the calcium sulphate molecules to nucleate and form crystals in-situ in and a...

A centraliser for the stem of a prosthesis for introduction into an intramedullary canal comprising an annular body portion for location on the tip end of said stem and provided with three or more resiliently deformable fins or wings projecting outwardly therefrom and which are adapted to fold circumferentially and inwardly towards said body portion.

Present invention presents a novel mechanism for reducing the amount of storage space necessary to perform error checking and correcting in a storage unit of a data processing machine by utilizing the information present in the parity checking portion of the storage unit. The novel mechanism is based on generating an error checking and correcting code which includes a first portion identifiable by...

The surfaces are passivated by contacting them, if necessary after degreasing cleaning, with acidic aqueous solutions containing chromium(III) ions in a quantity of 0.01 to 10 g x l<-1>.

A method of producing a site for tissue ingrowth on a surgical implant (20) by embedding a space occupier (10) possessing a desired pattern (14) in the surface (24) of the implant (20) at the desired location (22) for ingrowth and then solubilizing the embedded space occupier (10) to leave the pattern (14) on the implant surface (24). Preferably, the implant (20) is fabricated from a composite com...

The invention concerns a railway switch track comprising a rectilinear main track (1) and a branch line (2) deviating at an angle. The branch line (2) has a geometrical configuration which is at least partially cycloidal. The starting points (A, A min ) of the cycloidal arc are ahead of the initial points (B, B min ) of the tips (5) of the outer (3) and inner (4) rails of the branch line rail pair...

The present invention relates to a new physiologically active substance, Plipastatin, of the following general formula wherein R1 is -C13H27 or -C14H29, R2 is Ala or Val, and the abbreviations Glu, Orn, Tyr, Thr, Pro, Gln, Ile, Ala and Val respectively mean glutaminic acid, ornithine, tyrosine, threonine, proline, glutamine, isoleucine, alanine and valine. The present invention also relat...

N-acyl-N,N min -di-lysogangliosides, N min -acyl-N,N min -di-lysogangliosides and N,N min -diacyl-N,N min -di-lysogangliosides, in which the acyl groups are derived from an organic acid of the aliphatic, aromatic, araliphatic, alicyclic or heterocyclic series and in which at least one of the two acyl groups is not aliphatic, and their preparation are disclosed. Also disclosed is the preparation of...

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A method for the fluorescent labelling of a sugar or a sugar chain by labelling the reducing end of the sugar or sugar chain with a fluorescent substance, wherein the improvement comprises first forming a Schiff base by reacting the surgar or sugar chain with the fluorescent substance in the presence of an acid which is substantially free from water, and second, reducing said Schiff base.

The present invention relates to novel thimine derivatives of formula (I), the epimers and anomers thereof, wherein A represents a substituted 1-hexopyranosyl ring, which carries a substituent being not suitable for forming phosphate esters instead of at least one of the hydroxy groups being in position 2, 3 and 6, and at least one of the hydroxy group is protected with a protecting group. The com...

Es handelt sich hierbei um ein Messer mit Messerscheide (1), bei dem die Klinge (12) des Messers einen Durchbruch (16) aufweist und die Messerscheide mit einer ein Scherenblatt bildenden Lagerplatte (2) versehen ist, an der ein der Halterung und Führung der Messerklinge dienender und durch den Durchbruch (16) zu führender, einen Zapfenkopf (7) aufweisender Zapfen (5) vorgesehen ist, wobei eine das...

A semiconductor non-volatile memory device, having a normal operating mode and a test mode, has bit lines (BL0, BL1, BLr), word lines (X0, X1, Xi) which intersect said bit lines, and a plurality of non-volatile memory cells (Q00, Q10, to Q1i) connected to the bit lines and word lines where the bit lines and word lines intersect. The device also has a supply line (GND) for supplying at least one pr...

A process for the separation of solvents from hydrocarbons dissolved in said solvents wherein a feed solution comprising hydrocarbons dissolved in an aromatic solvent and a polar aliphatic solvent is contacted at elevated pressure with one side of a dense, supported, plasma treated membrane which is substantially impermeable to said hydrocarbons. The membrane comprises a dense, selective layer of ...

La présente invention se rapporte à un procédé de préparation d'un composé de formule et à un composé de formule IV à titre d'intermédiaire dans la préparation d'un composé de formule I; Process for the preparation of a compound of formula I from a compound of formula II via a compound of formula IV the invention also relates to a compound of formula IV as int...

An improved solvent-free transesterification process for producing higher polyol fatty acid polyesters is disclosed. In this process a mixture of a polyol, a fatty acid methyl, 2-methoxy ethyl or benzyl ester, an alkali metal fatty acid soap, and a basic catalyst, having a molar ratio of soap:polyol of from about 0.6:1 to about 1:1, preferably from about 0.75:1 to about 1:1, is heated to form a ho...

An improved solvent-free transesterification process for producing polyol fatty acid polyesters is disclosed. In this process, a mixture of a polyol, a fatty acid methyl, 2-methoxy ethyl or benzyl ester, an alkali metal fatty acid soap, and potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate or barium carbonate as a catalyst is heated to form a homogeneous melt. To this melt is subsequently added excess fatty a...

8,9 and/or 14,15 epoxidized and 5-acylated milbemycins and avermectins are prepared from the parent milbemycins and avermectins by epoxidation and acylation (in either order). They have enhanced anthelmintic, acaricidal and insecticidal activities.